Aid available for Irma home repairs
The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity said Monday it has started making assistance available to low-income residents in certain counties whose homes were damaged last year in Hurricane Irma. The department opened its first “Rebuild Florida” center in Marathon and started accepting online registrations for the program, which is aimed at connecting eligible Floridians with federal disaster-recovery funding to help repair homes. The program, announced by Gov. Rick Scott and U.S. Housing…Original Article
San Antonio-based USAA is eliminating hundreds of jobs in its real estate lending and real estate rewards network operations, citing competitive factors, the Business Journal has confirmed. About 265 employees across San Antonio, Tampa and Phoenix will be laid off in mid-November. It was not immediately clear how many positions will be eliminated in each market. USAA plans to offer support for the employees affected, including other roles in the company. Roughly 100 people were offered “other…
Premier Sotheby's International Realty is moving its South Tampa office to Hyde Park Village. The developer of Hyde Park, Boston-based WS Development, said Thursday that Sotheby's has signed a 3,381-square-foot lease on the second floor of the building at 744 S. Village Circle, which is above Juxtapose and Level Salon. Sotheby's will open in Hyde Park in November. Its current office is at 202 S. Moody Ave. “As Hyde Park Village continues to diversify and engage the right fit of business, retail,…
A quiet real estate and technology giant based in Austin is behind the venture.
Brokers say that Zestimates can be off base, but that doesn’t stop sellers from obsessing over what the website says their home is worth.
Demand for condos in Tampa continues to accelerate, according to one real estate agent.
A historic home in Tampa's Hyde Park has been sold for a price that's at the very high end of the Bay region's residential real estate market. The 5,982-square-foot home at 823 S. Orleans Ave. sold for $4.1 million to Harrel and Julia Lambert in a deal that closed Sept. 10, according to Hillsborough County property records. The sellers, Keith and Chandra Henthorne, paid $3.18 million for the home in 2013. Henderson Everett Lee of the Toni Everett Co. represented the sellers in the transaction.…
The developers of the 53-story Riverwalk Place in downtown Tampa have released new renderings on the cusp of a sales push that will begin in October. The tower, which is proposed at the intersection of Ashley Drive and Brorein Street along the Tampa Riverwalk, includes 205 condominium units beginning on the 22nd floor. Prices range from the $600,000s to $2 million. The units are stacked on top of office space, and the tower also includes space for restaurants and retail that open on to the Tampa…
In Tampa Bay, 7.2 percent of all sales were flips, higher than the national average.
Bad news for Tampa Bay homebuyers — a new study from WalletHub says this area is not a great place to buy a home. The study ranked 300 cities across the United States and placed Clearwater at No. 227, St. Petersburg at No. 221 and Tampa at No. 143 on the list. Each city was compared across 22 indicators of housing market attractiveness and economic strength. The scoring was based on topics ranging from median home price appreciation to home sales turnover rate to job growth. In the category…